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"Rat Salad" with mark (archive)

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | 07:00 to 09:00 | Playlist
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New Artist Song Album Label Comments
* Robert Turman Flux 5 Flux Spectrum Spools 1981 solo debut, avant-garde minimalist piano. Nice for 7 o'clock-ish
* Eliza Rickman Coming Up Roses O, You Sinners self-released new from Calif. artist
* Michael Chapman No-One Left To Care Rainmaker Light In the Attic 1969 Brit-folk classic, now reissued (and thankfully acquired here!)
* Hush Arbors Lowly Ghost Aureola (split LP with Arbouretum) Thrill Jockey new
Frog Holler Hole In The Ground Railings Record Cellar 2003, rural Pennsylvania
Muddy Waters Mean Red Spider The Anthology MCA-Chess 1948 recording. Today is Muddy Waters' birthday (he'd have been 97).
Muddy Waters Mannish Boy Electric Mud MCA-Chess Muddy playing in 1968 with the rock kidz
* White Hills I Write A Thousand Letters (Pulp On Bone) Frying On This Rock Thrill Jockey new from Brooklyn... fine space-rock
Luciano Love Jah and Live Dub (VA) MLK DUB RAS
Luciano Weaponist Dub (VA) MLK DUB RAS With MLK "I Have A Dream" mixed in. R.I.P. April 4 1968
* Colin Stetson The End Of Your Suffering For Those Who Didn't Run EP Constellation new bass sax killer
* Stone-Face And Life Everlasting Agawalam Mba Love Is Free b/w Agawalam Mba 7" Voodoo Funk / Academy Nigeria, 1973
Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 For Dem Eye From Africa with Fury: Rise Knitting Factory Playing at Duke tomorrow night, Page Auditorium
The Tar Babies Rockhead Honey Bubbles SST 1989
* Patrick Lundeen YA/DO The Oblique Mystique/ Looming Fruit 7" self-released new from Brooklyn too. Check out his visual art too (www.patricklundeen.com)
Tina Turner (with Ike interjecting his mess) Up In Heah Proud Mary: The Best of Ike & Tina Turner EMI 1972
Flamin Groovies Bam Balam Supersnazz Sundazed 1969
Charlie Rich I Feel Like Going Home (VA) Oxford American 10th Anniversary Southern Music Comp (2008) Oxford American demo recording from 1973
* Andy Statman Anthem Old Brooklyn Shefa fab melding of jazz, bluegrass, klezmer etc
* Veilée Un Beau Dimanche Matin (VA) Best of Festivals Acadiens et Creoles Valcour
Zydeco Joe Allons Danser, Chére (VA) Best of Festivals Acadiens et Creoles Valcour
* Melvins Friends Before Larry The Bulls & The Bees EP Scion A/V new, courtest of the car company oddly.....
Daughters Sweet Georgia Brown Daughters Hydra Head frantic spas-rock from Providence R.I. from 2010
Loretta Lynn Jealous Heart I Like 'Em Country Decca 1966. FINALLY playing at DPAC on Sat night April 7 after two postponements
Last Year's Men Make Me Feel Okay Sunny Down Snuff Churchkey After Loretta, head over to Casbah for Flesh Wounds, Last Year's Men, and Apache Dropout. ALL AGES SHOW!
Apache Dropout Sam Phillips Rising Apache Dropout Family Vineyard see above
Dead Moon Janus Trash and Burn Empty 2001
Dead Moon Sabotage Trash and Burn Empty 2001
Dag Nasty All Ages Show (VA) 20 Years of Dischord Dischord
Jan Dukes de Grey Sun Symphonica (VA) Anthems in Eden: An Anthology of British & Irish Folk 1955-1978 Castle Music spectacular long jam / song from 1971